Chapter 205
On the back of Lin Yi's right hand, a blood-red rose slowly bloomed, drawing his gaze and sending his heart sinking.
I'd been marked!
It was not that he had never seen the Blood Rose before. In fact, he was terrified precisely because he had just seen it.
The Duel King's Bandages on his hand had actually avoided the Blood Rose pattern of their own accord, wrapping around his arm instead.
Down in the pit outside, Lin Yi had seen the Desire Mother Tree's true form when the tree had set its sights on him.
And hadn't those intertwined tentacles, arranged like a human face, looked exactly like a rose?
Now the Blood Rose pattern on the back of his hand was not static. It kept blooming, as though it possessed an endless supply of petals that unfurled without pause.
This had to be the Desire Mother Tree's mark, but Lin Yi did not know exactly what it did.
He knew full well that this mark could not be anything good.
If the Desire Mother Tree really broke free of the restraints below, then... wouldn't he probably be its first target?
At that moment, Lin Yi's heart sank into a sea of despair.
The Red Rune Stone stele had already begun to crack. The steles made from rune stones of other colors probably would not hold out much longer, either.
Once the Desire Mother Tree broke free of its restrictions, his time would most likely be up.
Even turning into an Aberrant Man-Dragon would do him no good.
The Desire Mother Tree was an old god, an existence on par with Sequence Zero.
Sequence Zero.
Lin Yi was only Sequence Seven now. He did not even know when he would be able to advance to Sequence Six; he